Application Deadline on ONC Grants
There is one week left to Apply for Grants to Help Advance Interoperability. The deadline for applications is Monday April 6th at 11:59pm EST. You…
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CMS Continues to Tweak Meaningful Use Audit Program
By Jim Tate – What a difference a few weeks can make. Earlier this month I wrote a post entitled: When It Rains It Pours: A New Trend In Meaningful Use Audits? The topic was a disturbing new trend in meaningful use audits. At EMR Advocate we had been working with a hospital system to validate their meaningful use attestations by a series of mock audits.
EHR Incentive Program Stage 3 Proposed Rules
By Micky Tripathi & John Halamka MD – On Friday March 20, CMS released the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program-Stage 3 and ONC released the 2015 Edition Health Information Technology (Health IT) Certification Criteria, 2015 Edition Base Electronic Health Record (EHR) Definition, and ONC Health IT Certification Program Modifications.
SGR: Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Bill Passes House
H.R. 2, the bipartisan Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 2015 passed the House and has moved to the…
Is Your Small Practice Ready for ICD-10?
By Kathryn Disney-Etienne – It’s 193 days to ICD-10 and to be honest, that’s not much time! It’s time to get your practice ready to use ICD-10, but where do you begin? There’s no question it can be overwhelming! Here’s the steps we recommend to any Providers that ask. Let’s get started.
The March HIT Standards Committee
By John Halamka, MD – The March 2015 HIT Standards Committee was one of the most impactful meetings we have ever had. No, it was not the release of Meaningful Use Stage 3 or the certification rule. It was the creation of a framework that will guide all of our work for the next several years – everything we need for a re-charted standards harmonization convening body as well as a detailed interoperability roadmap, complementing the 10 year general plan developed by ONC.
Chronic Care Management with Telehealth Part II
By Sarianne Gruber – On October 31, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule for the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, the annual 1,100 page list of what the Federal Government pays physicians for Medicare patient visits and services.
Chronic Care Management with Telehealth Part I
By Sarianne Gruber – On October 31, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule for the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule ,the annual 1,100 page list of what the Federal Government pays physicians for Medicare patient visits and services.
UDIs Make Stage 3 EHR Certification Draft
By Professor William A. Hyman – The draft 2015 ONC Certification Requirements for EHRs, released on March 20, 2015 in advance of its Federal Register publication, includes among other things that EHRs have Unique Device Identification (UDI) capability for implanted medical devices